Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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Best Quotes about Anger

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.